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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.

  • p. 45 …In an attempt to read this text to determine if it could shed any further light…
  • p. 78 SUGGESTED READING. Blue Book Special Report 14 and the Project Sign and Project Grudge reports. These…
  • p. 146 …reference to the securit7 ot this countrr. Read his plana in detaU to Gen. Vandenberg and…
  • p. 148 …Van advised it would not get by Secretary Pattersc Have to take a reading on exactly…
  • p. 159 …although I know now from reading about this incident in nwnerous books that it was taken…
  • p. 160 CONTINUATION SHEET FOR AF FORM 1168 AND 1169 / / / I funher state that I have read this…
  • p. 169 …and I don't know how much you read it, is that Rickett some time later…
  • p. 170 …rmjust reading this end quote "book." No, No. I assume .. .! assume when I read this thing…
  • p. 171 …Rich, have you got, read, Randle and Schmitt's latest book? RW: I've not. I…
  • p. 178 …He's the type that would read a book while he was on a road trip…
  • p. 180 …quite intelligent. SC: Oh, yeah. He reacl. Read books while he was on road trips. RW…
  • p. 187 …But in reading over some of my other garbage here, I have seen some hieroglyphics. I…
  • p. 188 …You just read through it. I remember something about some hieroglyphics, not on that one. I…
  • p. 225 …Like taking a Pi Ball reading now. A: Exactly. It was called a Pi Ball then…
  • p. 228 …We have a read-out right here in laboratory. Q: So you're doing that work…
  • p. 241 …When I read this, I was not at all surprised. I interpreted that as saying someone…
  • p. 244 …project for AMC?" or were they not read on to the project at all? A: By…
  • p. 247 …Let me just read this. This is Crary's summary for the week of 30 June…
  • p. 249 …He had a place you'll read about, Fabians, Texas, which turns out to be just…
  • p. 251 …You'll see, when you read the Duffy thing, where Duffy thinks maybe there were things…
  • p. 254 …I find that of interest because apparently in reading some of the various things that happened…
  • p. 262 …I read to you one about some equipment had been stolen by the time we got…
  • p. 307 …I have read my rights as listed above and I fully un stand my rights. No…
  • p. 308 …unlawful influence, or unlawful (o affirm)/ have read this statement, initialed all pages and co ions…
  • p. 518 …from one contact to another give ambiguous readings, since the number of discrete resistances used is…
  • p. 520 …flights when the balloon is floating be read to the nearest two-tenths of a percent…
  • p. 521 …flight the accuracy of the data warrants reading only to the nearest one percent of a…
  • p. 639 …Coupled with the height data, theodolite readings provide a fairly reliable horizontal locus of the balloon…
  • p. 643 …Go vertically to the diagonal line representing the balloon's size, and then read horizontally on…
  • p. 646 …For our purposes, we wish to find F and have modified the equation to reads - 18 -
  • p. 671 …helix rotating once a minute, the pressure read- ability of' this system will be better than…
  • p. 711 …However, on reading them, a discrepancy was noted. We believe the weather conditions agreed upon for…
  • p. 841 …Signal return remained above satura- tion until a range of 7K yards was read, at which…
  • p. 842 …the flight with their elevation and azimuth readings repeated on the antenna. The MPS-6 antenna…
  • p. 887 …after valving them before taking final pressure readings. B. Length of Balloon Bubble The volume of…
  • p. 889 …to the extreme left-hand edge and read the altitude. The volume of the balloon is…
  • p. 907 …by noting the plane's position where the compass reading is reversed. the position of the…
  • p. 911 …The position of the leading edge of the pressure signal is then read to the nearest…
  • p. 915 …percentage of the turns as read on the nomogram. The lowest pressure reading is numbered as…
  • p. 918 …be thus determined by anyone who can read Morse code with a suitable radio receiver. T…
  • p. 923 …Corrections for curvature of the pressure record may be read directly from Figure 37, Which gives…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 13
A: No, we didn't.
Q: Not a letter or a number?
A: Wait a minute. The answer is, I don't know.
Q: If you did give it a letter or a number would it be
on ... There are some of these flights that appeared to have no
sequence number and they were talking in terms of being service
flights and the impression that we got was that the service
flights were either test flights just to check the balloons out
or they were the highly classified flights where the information
was not being logged into essentially an unclassified document.
A: You notice that Flight 1 was made from Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
Q: The football field there?
A: LeHigh, exactly. That's where we did it, from the
football field. And we did this because a professor at NYU had
just gone to head up the physics department at LeHigh and he
invited us over. His name was Frank, Butler keeps coming to
mind, but I'm not sure that's the right name. Anyway, we went
there and that was for an early, early attempt for Helgoland. I
think the Helgoland explosion got scrubbed, but we had balloons
in the air from this and we were woefully not ready. We had all
sorts of problems. We adopted the balloon technique that a
cosmic ray investigator at NYU, a fellow named Sergei Korf, we
adopted his technique and we had a lot to learn. We got our
hands torn up with nylon line being pulled through it as we
couldn't hold the balloons down in the wind ...
Q: Speaking of nylon line, were these braided type lines
or were they monofilament type lines?
A: Neither.- I think initially we used either parachute
cord, which was braided. I don't remember the details of what we
used, but we rapidly used that the radiosonde cord we used was
not strong enough at all to hold the forces that came, so we went
to what was called lobster twine. We used a lot of lobster twine
that was twisted, a laid line that was used in lobster nets.
Q: Do you recall there ever having been some sort of
monofilament similar to the monofilament fishing line in any of
the projects?
A: I think there was none available at that time. My
memory, the answer is yes, we've used an awful lot of
monofilament and we use it now all the time.
Q: But at that time you don't think it was available?
A: I think it was not available.

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